40. BROADCAST — ‘Colour Me In’
It starts with a lever being thrown on an old calliope machine found in a cave in the middle of an ocean of ice. The frozen gears begin to turn, the painted metal shrieks with stress, rimed lights glow[…]

Sherburne in Chile: photos, worth it for the Jan 4 one alone really![…]

The main reason I never liked football was that I could never play it. Football at school involved skilfully dodging people who were charging towards me – fine had I been a striker, less so as a defender. Nobody in my family liked the game enou[…]

The one saving grace of C4’s Top 100 Worst Singles programme (apart from it being compulsive point-and-shout watching, bah) was the way the director was clearly on the side of POP against the mealy-mouthed mutterings of SMUG BASTARDS. Almost ev[…]

Dave Stelfox‘ stuff on music and cultural context got me thinking a lot towards the end of last year — since he’s brought the subject up again lately, time to reply. Stelfox’ basic point — more attention to content and c[…]

The only recent PSB tracks I really like are the ones which cast Neil Tennant as a spectre at the celebrity feast; too old, too wise, cursed to observe. ‘Flamboyant’ is one of these — a darker cousin to ‘Shameless’ with […]

50. FABOLOUS feat TAMIA — ‘Into You’
As I write this I’ve been married two months to a woman I’ve been with for twelve years. There were times when I thought it was going nowhere, when I’d have put money against us[…]

Freaky Trigger Tracks Of 2003: This was meant to be an article, and was meant to be one of a number of year-end articles going up around this time. Unfortunately we’re still in a bit of a limbo vis-a-vis getting our domain name transferred to o[…]

I saw Isabel coming back from Christmas shopping with a very interesting looking GAME carrier bag so it might well be that come the 25th I will be looking for an excuse not to bother writing an end-of-year round-up. Luckily Jess has given me one by d[…]

My Favourite New Band of 2003! are Komatrohn – a quick look at that website will show you that they’ve been going since 2001 but they’re new to me, so there. They make very fast, very pop electro which all sounds wonderfully 8-bit. […]